Please, participate in this campaign and give your feed backs to make the new modified keyboard as easy as possible. The positioning of key should be the center of discussion. The typing should easier. Following points should be considered in this discussions.

1. Accessibility of individual key strokes. 2. Fastest typing of mostly used words.3. Half characters are not directly available in this unicode environment. Thus, "khutta tanne" is the main bridge to all half characters, thus, almost every word requires to press the SHIFT key at least once and this "khutta tanne" key also requires to be pressed. Therefore, I have proposed it to be placed under LEFT Hand's Majhi Aula (Middle Finger), and I wanted to put it under "aakar" i.e. Ba-ka-ma-aakar--na, but, most of the nepali words have "half na" thus, pressing khutta tanne key just on pointer finger is wasting a lot of time, and over stressing the pointer finger. So, when the pointer finger presses "na", the Middle Finger presses "khutta tanne" character to mean its going to half "na" and as we know then, usually comes "CHHA", and the Sahili (4th Finger) aula can press "chha" without releasing the right hand side SHIFT key. I tried it several time by pressing na shift-"khutta tanne" shift-chha, I found it a very smooth transfer.

This very useful link, thanks a lot for this information. Appreciated as well. Somewhen we can minimise the half characters to use 'Khutta tanne' tarika It's ok, no problem. Now I am using the keys for half characters like this way....If you want to type half 'na' then you can press 'n' and bar '_'. In this way, you can type half characters as per your necessaries. The Nepali key board link which you have providing here, is seems really cool and easy to use. And I fully hope, you will make it more easy in the days ahead. Once again, thank you for this valuable information.

Seems easy to me too. Thanks Nitesh ji for this information, I too found that it is an interesting. Indeed, ofcourse, we need more Nepali easy tools in the abroad.

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Hi! I was very surprised to see that Nitesh brought this topic topublic attention and I never noticed it. When I googled"saral nepali keyboard", the keyboard I every designedfor the unicode typing considering various factors, I wasexcited to find this link here at WNSO.org. Thanks toNitesh.

The version 4 of the Saral Nepali Keyboard has alreadybeen implemented in GyaNeX online typing software.You can see it at http://www.iGya.com/In this new version there were several updates madeto release the special characters. Despite effort Icould not release { [ }] ; ' " characters. But,others are now released and you can typewithout getting interfered by nepali keyboard. The"&" also was released and it becomes OM onlywhen it is a lone character, because Om nevercomes with other characters in Sanskrit characters,so you can use & to create special characters.

By release forward slash and backward slasheswe can create escape sequence and write a functionthat handles escape characters as you type.

There are some reshuffling of the position of charactersafter my personal experience with the earlier positions.

What is good with Saral Nepali Keyboard is that youdon't have to remember each barah khari' position.I tried to make as minimum as and very similar toRemington keyboard. Well, when I was in grade 8at Chitwan Highschool, I learned typing and historyof typewriters. I somewhat realized that we neededsome easier way of typing Nepali in unicode. Thus,you can find an online software, named "GyaNeX",and I was dumb enough not being able to findsome genious new name and ended up using myown name, apology for that, especially with thosewho are annoyed by such intrusion of personal namein a noble project.... K garne!

Well, if you want to read articles that are based on preeti or most of the nepali TTF fonts, I have also presenteda solution at http://www.iGya.com/preeti/You can just copy and past the preeti or other nepalifonts and click the buttons, you will find unicode Nepali.So, you can convert your old preeti font based documentsinto unicode nepali. Not only that you can also read newspapersor other articles written in preeti, using your university's computer where you are not permitted to install preeti fonts.What you do is just go to your website, e.g. NepaliPost.comand copy the unreadable characters (because of lack of appropriate fonts), paste them into my http://www.iGya.com/preeti/online converter webpage. You are done. You can read it.Thats what many people complained and I came up withthis simple solution. Now, you don't need to worry about whether the computer you want to use has preeti font or not. Forget about preeti or other TTF based font. You lifeis much easier without preeti fonts. Well, if you are still addicted to preeti font based keyboard, don't worry,you can type in preeti font based keyboard and convertto unicode nepali using these online softwares.

Good Luck. If someone finds this posting as if advertisement,I apologize. I just wanted to give inside story on this thread.